The 2025 Hyundai Santa Fe is a worthwhile contender if you’re planning to purchase or lease a new family SUV. The current generation that debuted last year has futuristic styling, an incredible array of safety features, and a spacious passenger cabin. So, let’s compare it with the 2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The current generation of the Grand Cherokee is now in its fourth year of production and gets no updates for 2025.
Our Hyundai vs. Jeep face-off will focus on three crucial areas that every new car buyer must investigate: interior specifications, performance capabilities, and safety suites. Using these three areas as evaluation tools, we can quickly determine which family SUV to pick. But you can also call Gettel Hyundai of Lakewood, and our team will tell you about the 2025 Santa Fe and explain each trim in detail. Then, you can swing by our dealership near Lakewood Ranch, FL, at your convenience.
The 2025 Hyundai Santa Fe has a spacious 150 cubic-foot passenger cabin, which is five cubes more than the 2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The 2025 Santa Fe provides three rows of seating and can take up to seven occupants, making it more versatile and family-friendly than the five-seat, two-row 2025 Grand Cherokee. Plus, you get second-row captain chairs in the top trim of the 2025 Santa Fe. This option provides two individual seats for extra comfort and ergonomic benefits. You don’t get this feature for any 2025 Grand Cherokee trim.
Furthermore, depending on the trim, the 2025 Santa Fe offers stain-resistant cloth, H-Tex, or Nappa leather upholstery. The 2025 Grand Cherokee doesn’t have such a wide range of seat upholstery choices. Nor does it offer front solar control glass and an acoustic windshield, which the 2025 Santa Fe does. Higher variants of the 2025 Santa Fe even provide a unique UV-C sanitizer compartment in the upper glovebox. This feature lets you sanitize your wallet, mobile phone, or house keys easily. There’s also a conventional lower glovebox. The 2025 Grand Cherokee doesn’t have this and only has a single glovebox.
Both family SUVs have features such as Bluetooth® hands-free and wireless audio streaming. They also have standard Apple CarPlay® and Android Auto™. The 2025 Santa Fe even gives you a 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster, which isn’t present for all trims of the 2025 Grand Cherokee. Then, the 2025 Santa Fe pampers you with power-adjustable, ventilated, and heated front seats, plus heated rear seats for higher trims. The vehicle’s sound system includes a Rear Seat Quiet Mode, which mutes the rear speakers when passengers are asleep. Buyers can also choose a 12-speaker Bose premium audio system.
The 2025 Grand Cherokee has an impressive 38 cubic feet of trunk capacity on paper, but we must remember that it is a two-row vehicle. Comparing it with the 2025 Santa Fe, when its 50-50 split-folding third row is fully folded, shows that the 2025 Santa Fe can provide 41 cubic feet. Furthermore, folding the second row in the 2025 Santa Fe grants a truly roomy 80 cubic feet.
Hyundai equips the 2025 Santa Fe range with a turbocharged 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine. This 277-horsepower unit can generate up to 311 lb-ft of torque. It powers the front wheels for some trims through an eight-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. Hyundai’s HTRAC all-wheel-drive system is available. Moreover, it is standard on the XRT trim.
Meanwhile, the 2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee offers a naturally aspirated 3.6-liter V6. The engine is rated for 293 horsepower and 260 lb-ft of torque. Rear-wheel drive and an eight-speed automatic gearbox are standard. Jeep also offers some four-wheel drive systems, depending on your off-road preference.
The 2025 Hyundai Santa Fe range comes with the Hyundai SmartSense suite as standard. So, all trims get forward collision avoidance assist, with pedestrian and cyclist detection. Then, there’s lane-keeping assist, blind-spot warning, and rear cross-traffic assist. A smart cruise control system is included for lower trims as well. Higher trims get a navigation-based smart cruise system with a highway driving assistant. A surround-view monitor and remote smart parking assist are available. Meanwhile, the 2025 Grand Cherokee doesn’t have some of these safety features.
The verdict is in, and the 2025 Hyundai Santa Fe wins our comparison by the proverbial country mile. It’s got a great interior that families will be pleased with. Then, its futuristic design, powerful powertrain, and excellent safety features all make for a value-packed family SUV. That’s why you should visit Gettel Hyundai of Lakewood with your family in tow. Then, you can take a test drive in a 2025 Santa Fe and discover its strengths.
